Chu Jie glanced at Chu Tian who had just walked out of the house, smiled and said, "Grandma, I have something to ask Xiao Shi."

Mrs. Chu snorted, stood up, looked at Chu Tian and said, "You brothers chat, grandma is going to the backyard to check on the rabbits."

Chu Tian said "hmm" and followed Chu Jie out of his house.

"Brother Jie, what do you want from me?"

The two stood by the canal. Chu Tian picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the water.

Chu Jie looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he said, "Xiao Shi, I know you know someone who can get some things that are out of stock on the market..."

Chu Tian glanced at him sideways and said calmly, "So?"

Chu Jie said bluntly, "You know, brother, I'm just a temporary worker now. I'm not satisfied with being a temporary worker all my life, so..."

Chu Tian interrupted him, "So, Brother Jie, you want to give a gift to get a permanent position?"

Chu Jie shook his head, "I won't give away so many things just to get a permanent job..."

"It's just that I have an opportunity right now. As long as I can buy a piece of supplies at a price no higher than 20% of the normal price, I can successfully become a regular employee."

"How do you want me to help?"

Things have come to this point. Chu Tian is not a fool, how could he not understand what he means?

Chu Jie smiled and said, "I want you to help me collect three thousand kilograms of flour and fifty sheep."

“That’s a lot!”

Chu Tian looked at Chu Jie in surprise. Wow, what a big appetite! Three thousand kilograms of flour and fifty sheep? What is he thinking? He dared to ask for it, but he didn't dare to say he had it easily!

Chu Jie nodded, "It's quite a bit, so our deputy mine manager also promised that as long as we can get this batch of materials, he will give us a regular job!"

"Xiao Shi, don't worry, my brother won't cheat his family. Because our deputy mine manager is in charge of production, I even got some benefits from him..."

Seeing Chu Tian looking at him without saying anything, Chu Jie raised the corners of his lips slightly and continued, "Our deputy mine director said that as long as we can get this batch of supplies before the Mid-Autumn Festival, he can give us another temporary worker quota..."

Chu Tian didn't wait for Chu Jie to finish speaking, and interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "Brother Jie, I'm the captain of the transport team, why do I need a temporary worker quota?"

Chu Jie smiled and said, "Why are you so anxious? I haven't finished speaking yet!"

"Our deputy mine manager said that if you can get this batch of materials, not only will you be given a temporary worker position, but you will also be given 3,000 kilograms of scrap coal."

"Didn't you look for someone to buy scrap coal last winter? If you can sell this batch of materials to our mine, you'll have 3,000 kilograms of scrap coal..."

Chu Tian bent down and picked up another stone, playing with it in his hand. After a moment, he threw the stone into the water. Then he turned to look at Chu Jie and said seriously, "I'm not sure if I can get such a large amount. After all, three thousand kilograms of flour and fifty sheep are not a small amount!"

He still had plenty of food in his space, and quite a few sheep, more than a thousand pounds of mutton, but he had them divided up when he bought them at the wholesale market, and there seemed to be only a dozen whole sheep left from the ones he had collected in Hami before. Now it was less than two months until the Mid-Autumn Festival, and he was not sure if he would have another chance to go to Northern Xinjiang or Southern Xinjiang during this period!

Chu Jie smiled and patted Chu Tian on the shoulder. "It's okay. Just do your best. Don't force yourself. It doesn't matter whether you succeed or not."

"Anyway, whether there is this opportunity or not, I can successfully become a regular employee by the end of this year!"

Chu Tian looked at Chu Jie speechlessly after hearing this, "If that's the case, why do you still..."

"Why do you still want this opportunity?"

Seeing Chu Tian nodded, Chu Jie curled his lips and smiled, "Because I want to show my face to the deputy mine director!"

Chu Tian wiped his face speechlessly, "Then why did you say all that nonsense before? Wouldn't it be better to just say it directly and clearly? Really..."

Chu Jie grinned, "We haven't seen each other much in the past two months, I just wanted to tease you!"

Chu Tian rolled his eyes in his heart, turned around and walked towards home, thinking that among the men in the Chu family, only Chu Jie and Chu Min liked to tease the original body. Could it be that they all had some serious problems?

However, Chu Jie explained it clearly, and Chu Tian breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, three thousand kilograms of flour and fifty sheep were really nothing to him. Although there was no whole sheep, the pieces that were cut up were also sheep, so wouldn't that be considered mutton?

If he were to trade with Li Gang, he wouldn't be afraid!

However, he inexplicably didn't want to trade such a large quantity of goods with the coal mine. He always felt it was not safe. His life was good enough now, and there was really no need to ruin it because of this business that made him uncomfortable...

Chu Jie looked at Chu Tian's reaction and knew that this thing was probably not going to work, but he didn't care. He smiled and followed Chu Tian's pace, shouting as he walked.

"I bought a bottle of wine at the regiment when I came back. Would you like to come over to my house for a couple of drinks tonight?"

Chu Tian waved his hand without even turning his head, "I understand..."

Time passed uneventfully, and soon it was 1975, three years later. Many things happened during these three years. For example, Yao Xiujuan gave birth to her third child, Lele, the following year. Yao Youjun and Yao Xiuli got married and had children. Chu Jun and his second wife had a son, but then lost another baby. Chu Jie and Chu Min were both regular employees now, and so on...

However, in the final analysis, the biggest thing was that the investigation conducted by Old Lady Chu into Chu Wen's case had yielded results. As expected, Chu Wen, Chu Tian and the other two were not biological brothers. No, it should be said that they were not brothers from the same father, but brothers from the same mother.

He was the child Liu Zhaodi had with a second-rate guy from the same village when Chu's father was not at home. Of course, Liu Zhaodi was forced by the second-rate guy at the beginning. The other party saw that Chu's father had not been home for a long time, and Liu Zhaodi was not bad-looking when she was young. She was unwilling to live in the same yard with Old Lady Chu and others, so she lived in a separate yard with her two children.

And that scoundrel, during a stormy day, sneaked into the house...

Chu Tian really didn't know what Liu Zhaodi was thinking. She was obviously forced, but in the end she really fell in love with him...

What is this called? It seems to be a mental illness, called Stockholm syndrome, where one is forced to convince oneself that one has not been hurt, but is willing to have an affair and have a child with the rapist because one is in love with him.